This report provides information and analysis, both of the current situation and context of the agri-food sector and the outlook for 2013. This is a joint effort developed for a fourth consecutive year by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (eclac), the Regional Office for Latin America...

本文综述了我国农业生态学的发展过程与演化特点, 并站在国际视野上分析了现代农业生态学发展趋势, 着重提出农业生态学正从宏观与微观两个层面不断拓展, 并把研究引向深入。从宏观层次上讲, 农业生态学正从已往的宏观农业生物学层面逐步深入到“三农”的社会学层面, 研究水平从以往关注农业生态系统结构与功能的关系逐步发展到人们普遍关心的食物系统(food system), 即从生态经济学角度研究农业生态系统能物流形成与运转对经济社会发展的影响以及社会政策法规对食物系统的调控作用。也就是说, 现代农业生态学越来越重视人类社会生态觉醒对保护农业生态系统环境, 促进无污染生产及市场营销的重要作用。因此, 在当代西方国家, 许多农业生态学工作者十分重视通过各种社区运动(movement)或行动(action)来促进政府、生产部门、销售部门以及相关管理部门接受农业生态学思想, 自觉按照生态规律办事, 保证食物生产系统健康高效运行, 这已成为现代农业生态学教学科研和生产实践的重要内容, 涉及科学理论研究-实验示范推广-各种联盟运动推进-社会公众自觉参与等全过程, 体现了现代农业生态学的时代特征。从微观层次上讲, 现代农业生态学正进入农业分子生态学时代, 它借助现代生物学的发展成就, 运用系统生物学的理论与技术, 深入研究农业生态系统结构与功能的关系及其分子生态学机制。特别是随着现代生物技术的不断完善, 环境(宏)基因组学、蛋白组学技术的问世, 极大地推进了人们对未知生物世界的认知, 尤其是对生物多样性和基因多样性的深层次剖析, 使得农业生态学能从分子水平上深入研究系统演化的过程与机制, 促进从定性半定量描述向定量和机理性研究推进。客观上要求农业生态学工作者必须与时俱进, 不断完善自己的知识结构, 提高现代科学研究技能, 只有这样才能自觉接受新的科学知识, 促进传统科学向现代科学提升。本文特以例证分析了这一科学发展的必须性和重要性, 旨在引发广大同行的反思与共鸣。

Five case studies are included here as examples of attempts to link small farmers with markets in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The case studies explore the business model used and the lessons learned. They are drawn from among the loose network of the organizations that are members of...

This Conservation Farming video is for anybody interested in the promotion of Conservation Farming and Climate Smart Agriculture. Produced by The Climate Change Unit of the World Bank Institute and TerrAfrica.  

Health, freedom and social justice cannot be separated. Anyone who loves a neighborhood, a nation or a small planet enough to work for its future, inevitably measures success by its health and well-being. How long do the neighbors live, and with what degree of freedom from the burden of illness?...

Dans les zones de savane subhumides d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, le modèle de production agricole inspiré par la révolution verte reste celui proposé aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs. Il mobilise des intrants chimiques, des équipements et des races et variétés sélectionnées. Cette option a été confirmée après les...

In 2013, Fundația ADEPT began a long term partnership with operation Wallacea. OpWall carries out a worlwide programme in which schoolchildren and university students gather information about the changes in and threats to globally important areas of biodiversity. Tarnava Mare is the chosen European hotspot

This paper presents issues and challenges for farm and enterprise diversification and integration of small scale farmers into value chains in East Europe and Central Asia (EECA). First, it discusses context and approaches to agricultural and rural income diversification. Second, it assesses the extent of agricultural diversification in EECA. Third,...

The aim of the study is to assess the food security, adapting/mitigation opportunities to climate change and policy situation and draw policy recommendations. The study was conducted in some selected districts of Tigray Region, Ethiopia based on some exemplary interventions such as communities, ISD, BPA and PROLINNOVA-Ethiopia. Agriculture in tropical...

This web site represents the Agricultural Pollution Control Project - APCP, funded by the World bank/GEF in the period from 2008-2012. The project represented an important agricultural activity of the Republic of Croatia in the context of adoption of new standards and legislation related to Good agricultural practice, especially environmental...

This Spanish project invested in the rationalisation and improvement of existing horticultural production facilities and in the introduction of two new lines of products, namely field tomatoes and watermelons. A group of producers came together to form the Bio Sol Portocarrero company which produces and markets organic horticultural products. The company...

Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can...

L’objectif global du projet "Les systèmes accessibles pour gérer les risques dans l’agriculture familiale en Afrique", maintenant appelé "la gestion du risque agricole pour l’Afrique",ou FARMAF, est d’améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des ménages et les moyens de subsistance des ruraux pauvres. Cet objectif doit être atteint en améliorant l’accès et...

Through the Best Practices 2012 competition, the Rural Network of Finland wishes to highlight the best projects and measures implemented as part of the EU-funded rural development programmes for mainland Finland and the Åland Islands for 2007–2013. This year, 193 competition entries were submitted for the following categories: 1) Leader...

Ce présent travail s’inscrit dans le projet ANR ECLIS dont la question de recherche centrale est de comprendre : « de quelle façon l’élevage contribue à la réduction de la vulnérabilité des ruraux et à leur adaptabilité aux changements climatiques et sociétaux en Afrique sub-saharienne » ? ( ANR, ECLIS...

FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has conducted three case studies to examine the opportunities and challenges for smallholders presented by: 1) bioenergy as a new type of value chain, and by 2) bioenergy certification schemes. Understanding the specific challenges and opportunities for smallholder inclusion in...

This study was done in Kabale and Mbale districts of Uganda for the two potato growing seasons of 2011/2012. It sought to determine factors that hinder smallholder farmers’ level of participation in the potato market in addition to those that influence their decisions to participate in the potato market. It...

Un fenómeno de los últimos quince años es la proliferación de organizaciones de alcance nacional que pretenden representar y defender los intereses y derechos de la población rural. Al mismo tiempo, la mayor parte de los conflictos sociales en el país ocurren en las áreas rurales. Tanta efervescencia de actividades políticas en las zonas rurales, ¿representa el surgimiento de...

The considerable food price rise and financial crises and already felt climate change effects on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have highlighted food security and livelihoods vulnerability and fragility in the region. With many mainly very small islands dispersed in a vast ocean, the challenges for individual countries to address their...

This final report synthesizes the results of the Iraq Salinity Project, a research partnership between five Iraqi ministries and national agencies and an international team of researchers, led by ICARDA, specializing in land and water management, crop improvement and plant breeding, geoinformatics, and socioeconomics. This research builds on previous work...